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Dr.O'Leary believes that most young men prefer to choose young,healthy women for their life partners because doing so boosts their chances for producing healthy offspring.This outlook illustrates the _____ perspective.

A) cultural
B) evolutionary
C) behavioural
D) developmental

E) None of the above
F) B) and C)

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The modern view that the subjective experience of having a mind is the result of brain activity can be traced to which philosopher?

A) Hobbes
B) Plato
C) Descartes
D) James

E) None of the above
F) A) and D)

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Someone with damage to their Broca's area cannot understand spoken words.

The functionalist approach was MOST influenced by the theory of:

The older position of nativism is reflected in psychological views that emphasize the effect of _____ on behaviour.

The greatest contribution of psychoanalysis was the research in experimental psychology that it generated.

Cognitive psychology is a field of psychology that attempts to understand the links between brain activity and cognitive processes.

As an elementary school student,Dan met with a psychologist who helped him with speech and reading.Which type of psychologist did Dan see?

The founder of behaviourism was William James.

The FIRST laboratory devoted exclusively to psychology as an independent field of study opened in:

If a behaviour is reinforced,it is more likely to occur again.

Helmholtz was a _____ who studied _____.

_____ demonstrated that rats are more likely to form a smell-sickness association than a light-sickness association.

The major reason why structuralism ultimately failed as a school of psychology was that:

A spiritual leader believes that the soul and the body are fundamentally different from each other but are linked via a special structure in the brain.His beliefs are similar to those of:

Fred and Yvonne notice that their 10-year-old daughter is beginning to use sexually explicit swearwords.They think that their daughter's friends might be encouraging her swearing with attention and laughter.Such a reinforcement of behaviour was a concept formulated by:

Use the following to answer questions : Scenario II Use the scenario to answer the question below.The scenario introduces material from the following publications: Bowlby,J.(1969/1982) .Attachment and loss,Vol.1: Attachment.New York: Basic Books. Preckel,K. ,Scheele,D. ,Eckstein,M. ,Maier,W. ,& Hurlemann,R.(2015) .The influence of oxytocin on volitional and emotional ambivalence.Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience,10(7) ,987-993.doi:10.1093/scan/nsu147 Catherine is a college freshman who is shocked at the intensity of the jealousy expressed by her roommate's boyfriend.Interested in understanding the relationship between Tara and Will,she becomes fascinated to learn in introductory psychology that jealousy has been studied from a variety of perspectives.She goes to the library and begins researching this topic. -(Scenario II) Other psychological theorists point to the consequences of jealousy as the reason for its continued occurrence.Catherine tends to agree.Every time Will goes into a jealous rage when Tara wants to hang out with her friends,Tara capitulates and stays home with him instead.Consistent with a _____ approach to psychology,Catherine believes that Tara is _____ her boyfriend's jealousy.

What technique did psychologists who studied structuralism use?

Although the overall theory was later discredited,_____ was one of the first theories to propose that some human traits and abilities are localized in specific regions of the brain.

Jeff thinks it would be beneficial for his employees to attend a seminar on how to become more productive at work.Which type of psychologist would conduct this seminar?